Over the last few years our school children have been taught a new subject. Let’s call it Capitalism Bad; Socialism Good. You may not be aware but this socialist almost marxist propaganda has left college campuses and is now finding its way to our middle schools. The theory and goal behind this video, produced by the “Tides Foundation”—a socialist redistribution driven organization, is to indoctrinate young children during their impressionable years, before they have learned to rationally think and question.

Of course, parents are kept in the dark, by the “all knowing” educators, who have embraced this ideology. The lead instructional lesson is called The Story of Stuff. This is a twenty minute video complete with a classroom quiz and related teaching and study material. The Story of Stuff provides questionable information that is contrary to what is the economic model that has made this country great, capitalism. This video is filled with false statements and half-truths. The clear intent is to mislead impressionable minds; to convince these minds that the ideology presented is common fact. This video is clearly propaganda indoctrination. Here is what that bastion of conservative think, The New York Times, has to say about this video in “A Cautionary Video About America’s ‘Stuff’”

“…The video is a cheerful but brutal assessment of how much Americans waste, and it has its detractors. But it has been embraced by teachers eager to supplement textbooks that lag behind scientific findings on climate change and pollution. And many children who watch it take it to heart…”

“If you want freedom, peace and prosperity for people all over the globe, you want capitalism. Protestors at the G-20 Summit would have us believe otherwise. So would the creators of the Story of Stuff, an anti-free-market film seen by tens of thousands of school children who now believe capitalism means trashing the earth and stealing resources from poor people.

It would be good if our schools began teaching intellectually honest economics. But most do not. What if all policymakers understood the connections between peace and personal liberty; prosperity and free markets; justice and risk?…”

You may want to go to the Evergreen Freedom Foundation website and learn who they are and their mission. This appears to be a solid and balanced organization.

The New York Times article states that

“…Which is one reason ‘The Story of Stuff’, a 20-minute video about the effects of human consumption, has become a sleeper hit in classrooms across the nation.”

A sleeper hit with whom? Is it a sleeper hit with parents? Have parents been told that it would be in the lessons? The piece states that the government exists to take care of us, well James Madison and the other Founders are rolling over on that statement alone. It is wrong about how much is spent on defense and how must forest remain. It even uses a military tank to represent the government—how balanced is that?

Iran, Russia, and The Peoples Republic of China are fermenting unrest throughout the world. In actuality, Iran is the point of this troubling spear and Russia and China are the enablers. Both Russia and China have important trade arrangements with Iran. Oil, again, is the root of the unresolved Iranian nuclear problem. China obtains most of its oil from Iran and this oil is critically necessary to fuel China’s growing economy and military—China will protect this oil life line fiercely. Russia has a lucrative trade export arrangement with Iran. This trade includes conventional arms, among other manufactured goods, making Iran one of its key export partners.

Neither China nor Russia is interested in an embargo of Iran because they depend heavily on Iranian trade. Thus Iran has been able to buy time and hold off the international community in its effort to develop a nuclear weapon. Without the strongest support of China and Russia, the international community including the United States is neutralized. Take note of today’s announcement at the international G20 meeting by the leaders of the U.S., the U.K., and France about sanctions, in that neither Russia nor China was present.

The Europeans are afraid of pushing Iran hard and are more interested in appeasement due to the Strait of Hormuz and Iran’s grip on the world’s oil supply. Back in March of 2008, I wrote: Oil, It will destroy us!

“Have you noticed that there is a direct correlation between worldwide tensions and oil? If you might be wondering why Russia’s Vladimir Putin [now Medvedev and Putin] has started to flex his muscles and become obstinate in the fight against global terror…you should be. If you are wondering why Iran has become so independent and belligerent of late…you should be. Have you looked at our own hemisphere lately? Take a good look at Venezuela and how Chavez is as bold as can be in creating an anti-U.S. socialist state more powerful than Cuba ever was….Well! It is all about oil!

Ask any military strategist and they will tell you that one of the reasons we cannot leave Iraq as we want to, is that we are afraid Iran will…make Iraq a satellite country in its attempt to create a worldwide caliphate (A caliphate is a fundamentalist theocratic form of tyrannical government, that unites all Muslims covering a wide swath of geography in the world, under one rule). This is not a good thing for the west. This could place Iran in a position to directly control 10% of the world’s oil (includes oil equivalent products in the production) and to indirectly control 44% of the world’s oil exports which are shipped through the Strait of Hormuz, by shutting down the Strait or creating the caliphate. In addition, today the group of thugs known as Russia, Iran, Venezuela could conceivably directly control 29% (with Iraq, 32%) of the world’s oil production, and indirectly control exports, when the Strait is included, to bring the overall control to 66% of world oil exports. An Iran controlling Iraq and the Strait of Hormuz would be one very powerful entity–an entity that has a culture and a philosophy directly opposite ours. Iran is a country that does not do well with negotiation, especially when we are in a position to lose and they are in a position to gain. Is it possible to successfully negotiate from weakness? NO! Are we in a position of weakness in such a negotiation? YES!

Considering that since our oil import consumption is at 31% of the world’s oil exports, and the control of 66% of the world’s oil exports by Iran and its new very cash rich friends can be a quick reality, we should be worried and reactive. Yet we are not!…

What do we do? In the short term we are powerless and our national oil policy has been the problem. Had we had a robust domestic drilling program for oil and natural gas, we would be in a position to sell China its much needed oil and natural gas. Instead we allowed China to become dependent on Iran for its economic lifeblood, crude oil, and Iran knows this.

Selling China that oil and natural gas that we have under our land and off shore, and did not go after, would have had far reaching effects internationally:

First it would have made China less dependent on Iran, allowing China to support intense pressure on Iran and have avoided the thwarting of the international community’s efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. In addition, China could also have put pressure on North Korea to keep that rogue power from selling missile technology and parts to Iran. These missiles are the delivery vehicle for the nuclear weapons.

Second, by selling China oil, we would have had an opportunity to balance our trade deficit with China. China would have been an equal trade partner and not our banker/lender.

Instead we chose to be flat out dumb on the use of our abundant untapped offshore and arctic natural resources, oil and natural gas. It is not too late to work toward making China an equal trade partner, rather than the one sided arrangement we currently have. It may be too late to solve the Iranian matter, but there will be other international troubles, including North Korea. China can be instrumental in providing support to manage those matters. They are a pragmatic country when it comes to protecting their self interests and this can work in our favor.

Our country continues to eschew the leverage oil would bring us as an international policy driver. Why do we continue to do this? I know, we want to save the planet, but if we don’t obtain the leverage necessary to control the spread of nuclear weapons we may not have a planet to save. Right now oil and natural gas are the best tools God has given this nation to keep world peace and we are blind to it. As a peacemaker, oil and natural gas in the right hands are the keys to world stability. In the wrong hands they are a flash point.

When reading print media pundits, like Maureen Down, or listening to cable media pundits and our black Representatives in Congress, I have become seriously distraught. Throughout my life, I have learned that when you disagree with someone or find them misrepresenting the truth—lying, you could call them out on the statement or statements based on the facts.

Now, I am finding out that when I or another —shall I say it—white person call out or simply question a person of color about a disagreement of ideology or simply thought, I am a racist. When I need to question statements of incorrect fact from a person of color, formerly known as lying, then again I am a racist. I am so sorry for the previous indiscretions and failure to understand that I have become a racist. Apparently I need to apologize. But how and to whom?

This brings up another bit of recent confusion. How and to whom do I apologize? Apparently, as Representative Joe Wilson found out, there is now an extensive protocol to an apology involving dissent of a far left liberal of color. As a newly identified racist, I apparently must apologize to the party who was misrepresenting the truth, his Chief of Staff, the Vice-President, both in writing and by telephone, and then finally apologize to the political community as demanded by another person of color, Congressman James E. Clyburn.

I wish someone would provide a manual on this racist apology thing. I also hope that someone includes in the manual a section on:

How do I tell a person of color that they are misrepresenting the truth, lying, or that they are just simply misguided?

Will this section in the manual suggest that I just sit on my hands and close my mouth—saying absolutely nothing?

Would this be acceptable?

Perhaps, there might be some sort of color code. If I feel a person of color is not telling the truth or is misguided, perhaps I can hold up a color coded card. Choice of color must be absolutely correct of course or I might inadvertently move to the bigot category.

Maybe we can use a nondescript muted red color to tell a person of color that they are misrepresenting the truth. A bland off white—oh, that will not work—white may be offensive as I am white, thus it may be interpreted by the far left as I am right and they are wrong. Wait, we can use a bland gray—the equal mix of white and black can be used to indicate that I disagree with the potentially offended person of color.

I have it now! When I confront a person of color who is lying, I will just hold up a red card. When I just disagree, I will hold up a gray card. This system, I hope will keep me out of racist hell and avoid that bigot label. I certainly hope this will be acceptable to the far left, the pundit police, and our Representatives in Congress who are not Caucasians.

Alternatively: All these folks can get real and not use the now heavily over used “racist” label to attempt to intimidate and quiet dissent, as they have been doing. Generally and often calling a person a racist when they disagree with a person of color can only be the last arrow in the quiver of the far left in their fight to move an unpopular agenda and to quiet the other side by intimidation.

The funeral for the main stream cable broadcast media is occurring today. At this writing, note this post’s date and time of 2:05 PM EDT, the Mall in Washington, D.C. is filled with Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, and Independents. TV pictures reveal that the Mall is tightly packed from the Capitol to the Washington Monument, with overflow, as a CBS affiliate reports, onto Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House.

The Fourth Estate, aptly brought to life by Edmund Burke in the House of Commons on a particular session during the 19th century, is the press. The clergy, nobles, and commoners being the other three. These estates were essentially the makeup of the British government at that time. He referred to the Fourth Estate as the most powerful of the estates present that day in the House of Commons—they were in the gallery. Closer to home, our Founding Fathers believed the Fourth Estate was similarly powerful and sufficiently independent to keep the three branches of our new government in check. This is why freedom of the press is clearly written into our Constitution. They were depending on the press to keep government honest. In no way did they ever believe that the press would become complicit with the government and withhold key pieces of news, slant the news coverage, and become the house organ of two of the three branches of government.

Incredibly, at this writing CNN is broadcasting a Barack Obama speech on reform before a large partisan audience. It is yet another speech by him in three or so days on healthcare reform—are they expecting him to say something new? The President is stumping in relatively Democratic conclaves trying to repair the breach in his Party over health insurance reform—this breach has gone mostly unreported by CNN. At this writing, MSNBC had planned a televised mystery / crime documentary which must be quite good and must serve the public interest to allow them to skip reporting about a long time planned event at the Mall in the nation’s capitol, now mostly filled with grass roots demonstrators made up of every day citizen protestors. It now appears that MSNBC did manage to do some reporting of the event after all. These protesters are mostly against big government and big spending, regardless of political party. If this were an anti-war rally, MSNBC would be reporting. If this was a Obama campaign rally, they would be reporting with flourishes.

The estimate for the attendance by the Park Police is 60,000. Recently, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, issued a memo claiming that 2 Million will show. She was setting ultra high expectations, so she could later minimize any protest significance. Well if the Mall is filled, depending on how tightly packed it is, it can hold anywhere between 1.7 Million to 2.1 Million people. TV pictures indicate that the Mall is filled. Remember CBS reported that crowd overflow filled Pennsylvania Avenue. Of course, government estimates, the Speaker’s estimates, and the news media’s estimates will be substantially minimized to accommodate their agenda. The Washington Post had an article written at the inauguration of President Obama about how many people the Mall can hold—Mall information found at the Washington Post click here.

Based on the broadbased main stream media failed reporting on the just broken high impact ACORN story and the failed or minimal reporting on the Tea Party protests around the country today, I can only state, if you are depending on this dead media for information, you are uninformed. The exceptions are those of you who are getting your news from Fox or by searching the internet for real news, not a blog like mine, otherwise you are seriously in the dark and cannot make informed decisions about our nation’s future. If you meet this uninformed criteria, then careful, you are being manipulated with all the news these “news” operations deem you should have, with the slant they want you to have.

This ideological conspiracy is an attempt at censorship plain and simple. MSNBC and now apparently CNN among other complicit news organizations are attempting to feed the populace with what they want us to know and are withholding selected news. If it weren’t for Fox News Channel and the internet—call it the Fifth Estate, they would be successful in using censorship to manage government propaganda. Are we living in a free nation or are we in a government and media controlled society, like Venezuela and Iran?

We can officially declare September 10, 2009 the day honest media was laid to rest. The breaking ACORN story—a viral internet story—broken by a new internet site “BigGovernment.Com”, and specifically James O’Keefe is a first class newsworthy story. The story is clearly seriously detrimental to ACORN and the multitude of politicians in Congress and in the White House who have allied themselves with ACORN.

The Story, the back story, and extensive video can be seen at BigGovernment.Com: click here and review all the video clips, including the Glen Beck of Fox News clip.

The story is big since ACORN receives millions in federal money—our tax money—and will receive Billions from the recent stimulus bill. We know of ACORN activities from reports of rampant national voter registration fraud allegedly perpetrated by ACORN during the 2008 election cycle. We also know that our President was a community organizer attorney advising ACORN for years. We know of his intimate relationship and his history with ACORN during his Illinois Senate days, United States Senate Days, his campaign, and now his enthusiastic interaction with ACORN while President of the United States.

ACORN is clearly affiliated with SEIU, the Service Employees International Union—those folks who wear the purple shirts—through common related management and common addresses. SEIU was instrumental in fostering an Obama victory by providing heaps of union dues money and plentiful union volunteers. Of late it was utilized to picket the homes of financial executives in Connecticut over bonuses.

This story is huge from so many directions and it, if completely developed, could lead right to the White House and Congress. Yet, no major news outlet is running with it to any legitimate extent, except Fox News.

Remember these ACORN folks specialize in helping community people to get the most from their government and regularly provide help and advice on how to maximize their members’ opportunities with applications for welfare, other government monetary assistance. And now we see they have mortgage specialists providing “special” assistance.

Big Questions:

How many mortgages that ended in foreclosure and helped tank our economy were made possible by the apparent “extreme” advice provide by ACORN to non-qualified applicants? How many non-qualified applicants qualified due to the “extreme” mortgage application and supporting documents advice provided by ACORN around the country? I use the word “extreme” to indicate that where there is smoke, etc., …well you get the point.

Just how much do our Representatives and Senators, such as Barney Frank and Chris Dodd among others in Congress, know about ACORN’s activities and why haven’t we seen any Congressional investigations operate with a full head of steam? John Conyers was going to initiate an investigation, but cancelled it saying that “powers-to-be decided not to investigate”. Who are the powers-to-be? Who is protecting ACORN in the Congress and possibly the White House?

Why is the main stream media complicit in playing down or simply not reporting what appears to be massive fraud? Is there a conspiracy of major media to lead us down the primrose path to socialism with a generous helping of organized community groups and political corruption tossed in for flavor?

The media is more concerned with Fox and now O’Keefe of BigGovernment.Com than with the real story. The trusting public has been steered by most big media to support the current administration and the current administration was not and is not vetted and challenged. Either big media is complicit with intentionally steering the populace or it is just terrible incompetent and gullible. Either way Americans who still get their news from the big media, other than Fox and a few other outlets are woefully uninformed.

Recently Robin Roberts of ABC interviewed President Obama about his healthcare proposals and she asked him about the distraction of losing Van Jones. Bill O’Reilly of Fox News expertly pointed out on his show that Roberts more correctly should have asked him why was Van Jones picked to be in his administration as an unconfirmed Czar. She should have asked what is and how deep is Obama’s relationship with this avowed communist and ex-convict. (Have we ever had an ex-convict be a Presidential advisor?) It appears that either Roberts is incompetent or she is attempting to help our President achieve his goals regardless of all the issues surrounding those goals.

We simply cannot trust most main stream media any longer as, with very few exceptions, honest media died some time ago—it was officially laid to rest yesterday.